The collection

Myriad Birds: A Kyoka Competition (Momo chidori kyoka awase)

Kitagawa Utamaro · c. 1790

Color woodblock-printed book

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The Tanabata Festival, from the series "Amusements of the Five Festival Days (Gosetsu asobi)"

Katsukawa Shunchô · About 1790

Color woodblock print; chūban

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Chinese and Tartar Boys Quarreling over a Game of Go

Katsushika Hokusai · c. 1790

Woodblock print; oban, keyblock proof impression

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Raku Ware Teabowl with Image of Mount Fuji

Raku Ryōnyū · Late 18th century

Glazed stoneware

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Soldier with Horse and Attendant

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · published 1785

etching

Public domain

Wooded Landscape with Three Cows at a Pool

Thomas Gainsborough · c.1785–8, reprinted 1797

Aquatint on paper

Punch Bowl

Ephraim Brasher · 1785–1800

Silver

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Seated Youth Leaning Against an Urn

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · published 1785

etching on laid paper

Public domain

Death Giving Audience

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · published 1785

etching

Public domain

The Rustic Bridge, Château de Méréville, France

Hubert Robert · c. 1785

Oil on canvas

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The Goddess Benten Holding a Biwa and a Young Man Holding a Shoulder Drum, from the series "Comparing the Smiles of the Lucky Gods (Fukujin egao kurabe)"

Katsukawa Shunsho · late 1780s

Color woodblock print; koban

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Three Soldiers and a Youth

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · published 1785

etching

Public domain

The Preaching of Warning. Verso: An Old Man Enthroned Between Two Groups of Figures, by ?William Blake

Robert Blake · ?c.1785

Graphite on paper. Verso: graphite on paper

Title Page

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · published 1785

engraving

Public domain

Standing Woman and Seated Men before an Obelisk

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · published 1785

etching

Public domain

Towing a Barge in the Snow, from the album The Silver World

Kitagawa Utamaro · 1790

Woodblock print; oban

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Lower Half of a Woman Playing a Harp. Verso: Seraphim and Other Drawings

William Blake · c.1785, c.?1807

Graphite on paper. Verso: graphite on paper

Young Soldier with Philosopher and Seated Woman

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · published 1785

etching

Public domain

Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Thomas Gainsborough · 1785–1787

oil on canvas

Public domain

Women and Men Regarding a Burning Pyre of Bones

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · published 1785

etching

Public domain

Cup

Cary Dunn · 1784–96

Silver

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Pair of Candelabra

In the manner of Pierre Gouthière · c. 1789

Bronze gilt

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A Page from Gifts from the Ebb Tide

Kitagawa Utamaro · 1789

Color woodblock-printed book; 1 vol.

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Birth and Baptismal Certificate

Henrich Dulhauer · 1784

Ink and watercolor on paper

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